Chapter 16: The Rock Breaker

"You say, Yanli is good at talking about this kid, but this hot temper is too annoying. You said that she tossed the child over early in the morning, and left without even saying a word clearly, and I don't know what kind of play she is playing? The mother complained, and slowly laid the child in her hand flat on the kang. When he saw that the child was white and pure, he pinched his little face with his hand.

"I don't think you should complain. The children are all brought to you, and the people are gone, and no one hears anything about your ink now, so what's the whole thing, they all live in an alley, who doesn't have a big affair yet, look at a day and don't delay anything, what do you do if you don't have it? Sun Guodong glanced at Xiaohong's mother, hung it from the clothes on the wall, picked up a coat, and draped it on his body.

"Look at what you said, I didn't say I wouldn't show her, and you didn't look at the child, pretending to be a good person. Come and see, this child doesn't seem to have woken up, just sat there and fell asleep, after a while I have to go to the field to pick vegetables, the field threw a bunch of messes, one person is busy with several people, you say that there is no idler at home to watch the child for her, isn't this nothing to add to the chaos? Xiaohong's mother said anxiously.

"Then you're going to be a little late, maybe he'll be back in a while? No matter how busy it is, it's not a bad day. Sun Guodong said and walked out without looking back. He went to the stable, took out the big white horse, put on the splint, and drove away.

Xiaohong was lying in the room in a daze, hearing her mother's nagging voice to her father, and listened to it with her ears sideways for a long time, but she didn't understand what was going on. Listening to the sound of her father closing the door, she tried to crawl out of the bed to see what was going on.

But as soon as her arms moved, her whole body did not hurt except for the tooth joints, and there was no good place for any parts, she secretly complained in her heart, but she didn't expect that a small trip would be a terrible disaster.

This shadow in her heart is always attached to her body, and I am afraid that she will not be able to erase it in this life.

After returning from the hospital, she continued to drip for several days, and the bruises on her body were almost gone. After the bandage on his head was removed, there were still some wounds on his severely anemia that had not healed, but the whole person's complexion and recovery was quite good.

Rural children are not so squeamish, they are exposed to the wind and sun all the year round, and they have a little headache and brain fever, which is not a serious illness, and it is over quite well. If it weren't for the accidental injury, Sun Xiaohong wouldn't have to take a pill all year round. It's good now, I keep a medicine box all day long, swallow a stomach of bitter water, and if I want to sell the door one step, I have to brew it in my head.

"Mom, what's going on at Sister Yanli's house? Didn't she tell you? She bit her lip and sat up with her strength and slowly dressed, her hands on the wall, her legs trembling, and she staggered out of it. She walked dizzily into the room, and with every step she took, she felt her head a little bigger, and she looked down heavily, and all she saw was double eyelids.

"No, I don't. She was in such a hurry, and before I could ask her, she was gone, and I wondered. Your dad even asked him to open the door, and he didn't even ask, just let people in. Xiaohong's mother said with a frown.

"Mom, you go to the field to be busy, anyway, Sister Yanli's child is also very obedient, he is not naughty at all, give some delicious food, you can coax it, I can't do anything at home, look at a child, there should be no problem." Sun Xiaohong said, clutching her chest and knocking lightly. Then she came to the edge of the kang, and when she saw the child asleep, she cracked her mouth and waved her hand at her mother.

"Will this work? Look at you like this, watching the children at home, I don't feel at ease even if I work in the fields. You say that's a lot, if only your grandma were at home, she could help take care of it. ”

After listening to her mother's words, Xiaohong remembered that a few days ago, her grandmother went to her aunt in the city, she was always unconscious and reluctant to stay, and she couldn't stay anywhere, and it was estimated that she should be back soon in the next few days.

"I'm much better, what's not good about a child. Mom, go ahead, I can watch him! Mom, you say, what's going on at Sister Yanli's house? She is a very strong person, she sells tofu outside every day, and anyone can meet her, did she offend anyone? ”

"Isn't that what I'm talking about? Don't look at the glamorous wind for a while, her temper is very characteristic, and when she gets up, it is a stove pit digging a well, the eaves are open, and she never asks for help. This morning, if she didn't have anything else to do at home, I'm afraid she wouldn't have sent the child to our house early in the morning. Unless......" Xiaohong's mother said and spoke, her face became ugly, and she left half a sentence on the tip of her tongue, she wanted to speak and stopped, and did not dare to say any more.

Although Xiaohong's mother didn't dare to say it directly, she really didn't guess wrong, as for what was unbelievable, Xiaohong's mother was still drumming in her heart. But she guessed and didn't guess anything, so she simply carried a bamboo basket to the vegetable field.

There is an eagle's beak in the back mountain of Fanggang Village, and there is a sheep intestine path in the mountain stream of the eagle's beak, this path is winding and winding, falling along the trend, leading from the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, and no section is straight.

Usually here is overgrown with weeds, vines are entwined, and there are gloomy crooked neck trees everywhere, especially in the hazy dusk, which is unusually weird, because there is no sunlight all year round, and few people in the village walk around here.

On both sides of the mountain stream, there was originally a hillside, because some unscrupulous villagers in the neighboring villages, and the secretary of the brigade colluded with each other, they often drove a forklift here in the middle of the night to steal the loess and sell it, a few years, the priority of the topography, several times destroyed, and the crumbling ruins as dangerous and lurking, all of them became dangerous and steep like axe splitting and cutting, it seems that someone coughed lightly in the mountain stream, and it would be buried in the instant landslide.

I don't know what to avoid, or what folk customs are inspired, in short, the villagers would rather take a detour than take this shortcut home, only a sheep herd in the village who is not afraid of heaven and earth, often carrying a snowy sickle, driving the sheep without scruples, and traveling back and forth gracefully.

On the day Sun Xiaohong fell and injured herself, there happened to be trouble here. The crazy torrential rain not only flooded the 100 acres of fertile land outside the dam, but also cut down the steep slopes on both sides of the mountain stream here in the eagle's beak. The collapsed soil, mixed with the remnants of the grass and grass, blocked the only path like a stream of mudslides.

The next morning after the heavy rains, the village shepherds came out to graze their sheep. As he drove his sheep through the mountain stream, he suddenly noticed a bag of loess mud among the weeds beside the roadside, which was full of clothes.

Out of curiosity, the shepherd pulled out the artemisia grass, which was more than a man tall, slowly approached, and then drew a sickle from his back and pulled the sack. It didn't matter to him when he looked at it, a human head appeared from it, and he suddenly turned pale with fright, his legs trembled suddenly, and he almost fell to the ground. When he reacted, he didn't care about herding the sheep, he waved his whip, brought the flock back, and quickly went into the village to report the crime. After the villagers got the news, they ran to the eagle's beak to see the excitement, and for a while, the village was full of people, like a nest of ants swarming around.

After the police were called, several police cars quickly arrived at the eagle's beak. The police came to the scene of the incident, took pictures, and took notes, and they worked hard at the eagle's beak for a whole day before driving away.

After a forensic autopsy, it was found that the victim was a man in his twenties, and the time of murder was about two years ago. I don't know what the reason is, but the deceased did not have any injuries on his body, except that his head, which had been hit with a blunt object, and it was fatal. Within a few days, the police visited almost every house in Fanggang Village, but did not find any villagers with a motive for committing the crime.

The deceased's clothes were rotten, and only a belt around his waist attracted the attention of the villagers. It turned out to be this belt on the deceased's body, which gave the villagers a red signal. Because of this belt, there is only one in the whole village, and this leather bag is a foreign goods from Guangzhou, and there are several people in the village who are the same age as the deceased who can recognize it at a glance.

The police followed the trail and soon found the murderer. The victim's name is Qi Er, his parents are in business, and at that time, his family was the richest family. Later, after his parents died, in addition to leaving him three large tiled houses, he also left him a large passbook. Although he didn't say the amount on the passbook, the arrogance of the valuables he spent money on made many people in the village salivate.

For unknown reasons, he sold his family's house and lived with his brother and sister-in-law. Later, I heard that he went to the south to work, and then there was no news. Maybe he died too unjustly, which invisibly alarmed the heavens, and even God was upset for him, but a thunderstorm sent his brother and sister-in-law to court. According to the prisoner's own confession, it was the husband and wife who teamed up to get their younger brother drunk, and then killed him with a hammer. Money is an evil temptation, and when people turn to evil, even siblings become inhuman.

No wonder Wu Yanli was so flustered in the morning, one of the murderers was her husband's sister, that is, the deceased's sister-in-law. She hurried out of the village to the court.

Good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, and within two hours, the whole village was spreading the news. The more people spread the gods, the more mysterious they became, and on the tips of their tongues, they even alarmed the land of the mountain gods.

When Wu Yanli returned from the courtroom, she didn't say a word about her family's affairs. In fact, she didn't say it, Xiaohong's mother already knew the ins and outs of the matter. But people don't want to talk about it, so don't be embarrassed to ask. After all, it's not a good thing, why do you stretch your tongue so long. Whoever loses it in these years can't pick it up, can you find something to do?

At dinner, Guo Yanmei came to see Xiaohong at home, and she also told Sun Xiaohong that the graduation certificate had come down, and the school informed everyone that they must go to the school to get it in person, and the teaching office would stamp it.

"Isn't it just a diploma? I'm all like this, so what's the use of it? Sun Xiaohong muttered in fragments, and her heart was full of unspeakable complaints.